Which falls faster?
Which falls faster?
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~ 7 years ago
Dec 3, '16 9:02am
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Science Rocks! 4951
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Dec 3, '16 9:57am
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InterestingThat was a huge waste of time and resources! Â Look at all the people involved. Â How much do you think that cost? 4951
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~ 7 years ago
Dec 3, '16 9:59am
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Duh. I could of saved them a lot of money. 4951
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Dec 3, '16 4:44pm
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They didn't build that vacuum chamber just to do this experiment. It had been built by NASA to test large equipment and containers to make sure they can handle the vacuum in space. As for the costs of operating it and the men, look at it as a priceless video in demonstrating Galileo's gravity theory of objects falling at the same rate in the absence of air. Galileo had already partially proved it by dropping balls of similar sizes but different densities from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but couldn't prove that everything fell at the same rate in the absence of air. In high school, I watched a similar, but much smaller demonstration in a table-top vacuum chamber. It was impressive, but was over too quickly. Even now, I'm amazed at watching the feathers and bowling ball drop that far at the same speed. 4951
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